LIFETIME FRIENDS

I was shown this photo this morning, its of one of my charges when she was about eleven, I just thought it was quite sweet. The story behind it is also quite sweet, it was given to a neighbour's daughter who use to play with Peggy ( the lady in the Photo) as children in around 1922, as they both grew up and went their separate ways the photograph was kept as a happy memory of childhood days spent together. Their Fathers both fought in the trenches during WW1, Mary, the owner of the picture remembers talk of how Peggy's Papa, who was the eldest of the two, use to say that he was only there in the mud & the slime to keep an eye out for Mary's dad.
Moving on nearly eighty years it came as a surprise to both of the girls to meet again when Mary Moved down from Ponteland to Ilkley a couple of years back and settled here in the retirement apartments I manage, you would think to hear them speak that they had never lost touch. Mary brought the photo down for me to see & was saying she's going to use it as a bargaining tool with Peggy as Peggy has some photos of her Father she would like, now I've photographed the photograph they and all their families can have a copy, thats my random act of kindness for today.